Ganga clean-up deadline revised again, but is it achievable?

Union minister Gajendra Shekhawat still has a number of challenges ahead if the target is to be achieved within next two years

New projects launched for real-time monitoring of air and water quality

Launched by the Department of Science and Technology and the Corporate Research Council of Intel, the 4 new projects include real-time river …

Cleaning trees

Phytoremediation gets another shot in the arm as Japanese researchers transform conifer leaves to fantastic cleaning agents

Fishy deaths

The mystery of large-scale fish fatalities in the Yamuna near Agra and the conflicting official theoriesA report by Prabhanjan Verma

Wash out

In the guise of making washing easy, detergents are directing a chemical fusillade at the environment in the absence of regulation, discovers …

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Washing water

Microbes can rid polluted water of toxic metals and colours

PAYING FOR POLLUTION

One of the world's oldest refineries, Digboi, faces closure

Waste, by any other name...

Yesterday once more

Unsafe cleanup of the Carbide factory revives memories of Bhopal's tragedy

Rs 67 crore later

...In Kanpur's Jajmau area, chromium enters food chain. How spent is the Ganga Action Plan?

Gender bender

Low oxygen induces sex change in fish

Pune is clean

Biofuels more dangerous than fossil fuels

Ahmedabad's mega project for industrial effluents

Kerala village sees off bauxite mining

Tannery convicted

Choking slowly to death

The Damodar is the most polluted river in the country today, thanks to the several industries that have sprouted on its mineral-rich banks. …

Ghaziabad is ignoring its waterbodies despite court rulings

The Uttar Pradesh government has not submitted any action taken report on measures taken to restore waterbodies in the last seven months

Effluent treatment plants must meet water quality norms by March 31: SC

Justice Kehar directs state governments to initiate criminal and civil proceedings against industrial units flouting norms

Only 50% of India’s pollution authorities make real-time data public: CSE analysis

As of February 2020, nearly 39% pollution control boards (states and Union territories) shared data in public domain 

Another Kasaragod

Like Kerala’s Kasaragod, neighbouring Dakshina Kannada is bearing the brunt of spraying of endosulfan. While Kasaragod grabbed media …

Poison river

Mythology has named Yamuna after the sister of Yama, the Hindu God of death. With the presence of toxic pesticides and chemicals in the river, …

Waiting for a miracle

Citizens approaching the courts for protecting lakes in cities is all very well. But in the end, it is a choice between using land for water or …

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